Balendra Shah, former Kathmandu mayor and rapper, is contesting Nepal’s 2026 elections as a prime ministerial candidate. Backed by youth support and RSP, he challenges established political forces ...
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Rewriting the cinematic map

The cinema of a region is never merely a sequence of images, it is a choreography of belonging. To speak of South Asia on screen is to invoke not a stable geography but a vibrating field of memory, ...
Riding a Gen-Z wave in Nepal’s polls, the Kathmandu mayor’s rise is also marked by sharp rhetoric and recurring controversies.
How Balen Shah Is Rewriting Nepal’s Political Playbook in the 2026 Election. Kathmandu, 5 March : Nepal went to the polls on March 5, 2026, in what ...
Balendra Shah, foreground, former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, arrives to receive his victory certificate ...
Balendra Shah, known as Balen Shah, is Nepal's rapper-turned-politician who has made a remarkable journey from music to politics, serving as Prime Minister after rising through the ranks as a socially ...
Nepal Election Results 2026 highlights: Balen Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is leading in 110 seats in Nepal, while ...
Colombians voted Sunday for a new Congress and to select candidates from three major coalitions in a primary-style contest ahead of a presidential election in May.
Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city on Sunday, amid new concerns about the future of the ...
SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains the songs by episode in Shrinking Season 3. Apple TV’s comedy series from co-creators Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel is back with its third season ...
Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah's party leads early vote counts in Nepal's general election:: Kathmandu, Nepal / March ...